Scott A Mensing
Biographic Data
| ID | 1687642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott A Mensing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mensing |
| SIGNATURE | MENSING S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reliability of the Artemisia /Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio in differentiating vegetation and reflecting moisture in arid and semi-arid China
The reliability of the ratio between Artemisia and Chenopodiaceae pollen percentage (i.e. A/ C) in differentiating vegetation and reflecting moisture conditions in arid and semi-arid regions has been disputed and this hindered its potential application in palaeoclimate reconstructions. In this paper, we investigated the A/ C ratios of lake-centre surface sediment from 45 lakes in the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Qaidam Basin in arid and semi-ar…
The value of non-pollen palynomorphs in interpreting paleoecological change in the Great Basin (Nevada, USA)
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identifiable microfossils that survive chemical digestion during pollen extraction and appear in pollen slides. They represent important proxies and indicators of environmental change that can be integrated with pollen studies of landscape history. NPPs have been widely studied in Europe since the 1970s and regularly included in paleoecological studies, whereas in the United States only the most common NPPs have…
Multi-disciplinary approach to identifying Native American impacts on Late Holocene forest dynamics in the southern Sierra Nevada range, California, USA
Late Holocene fire and vegetation reconstruction from the western Klamath Mountains, California, USA
The influence of Native American land-use practices on vegetation composition and structure has long been a subject of significant debate. This is particularly true in portions of the western United States where tribal hunter-gatherers did not use agriculture to meet subsistence and other cultural needs. Climate has been viewed as the dominant determinant of vegetation structure and composition change over time, but ethnographic and anthropologic…
High-precision AMS 14C chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada
A millennium of Mediterranean forest change
A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA
Pollen and algae microfossils preserved in sediments from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, provide evidence for periods of persistent drought during the Holocene age. We analyzed one hundred nineteen 1-cm-thick samples for pollen and algae from a set of cores that span the past 7630 years. The early middle Holocene, 7600 to 6300 cal yr B.P., was found to be the driest period, although it included one short but intense wet phase. We suggest that Lake Tahoe w…
Late-Glacial and Early Holocene Vegetation and Climate Change near Owens Lake, Eastern California
Pollen and algae from Owens Lake in eastern California provide evidence for a series of climatic oscillations late in the last glaciation. Juniper woodland, which dominated the Owens Valley from 16,200 to 15,500 cal yr B.P., suggests much wetter conditions than today. Although still wetter and cooler than today, the area then became fairly warm and dry, with woodland being replaced by shrubs (mainly sagebrush) from 15,500 to 13,100 cal yr B.P. Ne…
Land of Chamise and Pines
In marked contrast to California's landscape of urban sprawl, expansive agriculture, and wildlands altered by protectionist management systems, many landscapes in neighboring Baja California would still be recognizable to the first European explorers. This book shows that the vegetation of present-day Baja California is remarkably similar to that observed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and that historical fire and grazing management has done lit…
A 560-Year Record of Santa Ana Fires Reconstructed from Charcoal Deposited in the Santa Barbara Basin, California
Microscopic charcoal from varved Santa Barbara Basin sediments was used to reconstruct a 560-yr record (A.D. 1425 to 1985) of Santa Ana fires. Comparison of large (>3750 μm 2 ) charcoal with documented fire records in the Santa Barbara Ranger District shows that high accumulations correspond to large fires (>20,000 ha) that occurred during Santa Ana conditions. The charcoal record reconstructed a minimum of 20 large fires in the Santa Barbara reg…
A Simple Method to Separate Pollen for AMS Radiocarbon Dating and its Application to Lacustrine and Marine Sediments
We present a simple method for manually separating pollen concentrates for radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating using a mouth pipetting system. The required equipment is readily available from scientific equipment supply houses at minimal cost. Pollen samples from lake sediments required about 4 h of hand picking, whereas samples from marine sediments required about 8 h labor. Pollen dates from marine sediments were much older t…
High-precision AMS 14C chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada
A Simple Method to Separate Pollen for AMS Radiocarbon Dating and its Application to Lacustrine and Marine Sediments
We present a simple method for manually separating pollen concentrates for radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating using a mouth pipetting system. The required equipment is readily available from scientific equipment supply houses at minimal cost. Pollen samples from lake sediments required about 4 h of hand picking, whereas samples from marine sediments required about 8 h labor. Pollen dates from marine sediments were much older t…
Land of Chamise and Pines
In marked contrast to California's landscape of urban sprawl, expansive agriculture, and wildlands altered by protectionist management systems, many landscapes in neighboring Baja California would still be recognizable to the first European explorers. This book shows that the vegetation of present-day Baja California is remarkably similar to that observed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and that historical fire and grazing management has done lit…
Late Holocene fire and vegetation reconstruction from the western Klamath Mountains, California, USA
The influence of Native American land-use practices on vegetation composition and structure has long been a subject of significant debate. This is particularly true in portions of the western United States where tribal hunter-gatherers did not use agriculture to meet subsistence and other cultural needs. Climate has been viewed as the dominant determinant of vegetation structure and composition change over time, but ethnographic and anthropologic…
Multi-disciplinary approach to identifying Native American impacts on Late Holocene forest dynamics in the southern Sierra Nevada range, California, USA
A 560-Year Record of Santa Ana Fires Reconstructed from Charcoal Deposited in the Santa Barbara Basin, California
Microscopic charcoal from varved Santa Barbara Basin sediments was used to reconstruct a 560-yr record (A.D. 1425 to 1985) of Santa Ana fires. Comparison of large (>3750 μm 2 ) charcoal with documented fire records in the Santa Barbara Ranger District shows that high accumulations correspond to large fires (>20,000 ha) that occurred during Santa Ana conditions. The charcoal record reconstructed a minimum of 20 large fires in the Santa Barbara reg…
A Simple Method to Separate Pollen for AMS Radiocarbon Dating and its Application to Lacustrine and Marine Sediments
We present a simple method for manually separating pollen concentrates for radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating using a mouth pipetting system. The required equipment is readily available from scientific equipment supply houses at minimal cost. Pollen samples from lake sediments required about 4 h of hand picking, whereas samples from marine sediments required about 8 h labor. Pollen dates from marine sediments were much older t…
Land of Chamise and Pines
In marked contrast to California's landscape of urban sprawl, expansive agriculture, and wildlands altered by protectionist management systems, many landscapes in neighboring Baja California would still be recognizable to the first European explorers. This book shows that the vegetation of present-day Baja California is remarkably similar to that observed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and that historical fire and grazing management has done lit…
Late-Glacial and Early Holocene Vegetation and Climate Change near Owens Lake, Eastern California
Pollen and algae from Owens Lake in eastern California provide evidence for a series of climatic oscillations late in the last glaciation. Juniper woodland, which dominated the Owens Valley from 16,200 to 15,500 cal yr B.P., suggests much wetter conditions than today. Although still wetter and cooler than today, the area then became fairly warm and dry, with woodland being replaced by shrubs (mainly sagebrush) from 15,500 to 13,100 cal yr B.P. Ne…
A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA
Pollen and algae microfossils preserved in sediments from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, provide evidence for periods of persistent drought during the Holocene age. We analyzed one hundred nineteen 1-cm-thick samples for pollen and algae from a set of cores that span the past 7630 years. The early middle Holocene, 7600 to 6300 cal yr B.P., was found to be the driest period, although it included one short but intense wet phase. We suggest that Lake Tahoe w…
A millennium of Mediterranean forest change
High-precision AMS 14C chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada
Late Holocene fire and vegetation reconstruction from the western Klamath Mountains, California, USA
The influence of Native American land-use practices on vegetation composition and structure has long been a subject of significant debate. This is particularly true in portions of the western United States where tribal hunter-gatherers did not use agriculture to meet subsistence and other cultural needs. Climate has been viewed as the dominant determinant of vegetation structure and composition change over time, but ethnographic and anthropologic…
Multi-disciplinary approach to identifying Native American impacts on Late Holocene forest dynamics in the southern Sierra Nevada range, California, USA
The value of non-pollen palynomorphs in interpreting paleoecological change in the Great Basin (Nevada, USA)
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identifiable microfossils that survive chemical digestion during pollen extraction and appear in pollen slides. They represent important proxies and indicators of environmental change that can be integrated with pollen studies of landscape history. NPPs have been widely studied in Europe since the 1970s and regularly included in paleoecological studies, whereas in the United States only the most common NPPs have…
Reliability of the Artemisia /Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio in differentiating vegetation and reflecting moisture in arid and semi-arid China
The reliability of the ratio between Artemisia and Chenopodiaceae pollen percentage (i.e. A/ C) in differentiating vegetation and reflecting moisture conditions in arid and semi-arid regions has been disputed and this hindered its potential application in palaeoclimate reconstructions. In this paper, we investigated the A/ C ratios of lake-centre surface sediment from 45 lakes in the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Qaidam Basin in arid and semi-ar…
Geography (11 works) · Physical geography (10 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Tree-ring climate responses (5 works) · Holocene (4 works)